[Intro]
A F A F
G D A
 
[Verse 1]
A              F           G              A
Cowering like settlers on someone else's land
   A                      F
Mistaking advances of the natives
         G        D    A
Who have come to lend a hand
        F         G               A
It's a sad and pathetic badge of shame, my friends
F              C    G   A
Terror always seems to win
       F         G      A
In the drama of human motivation
         F                E
Where is restraint and reason?
 
 
[Chorus]
          A     F     A      F
Threat is urgent, existential
     G                A
With patience wearing thin
        A       F     A    F
But the danger's elemental
      G            A
It's chaos from within
 
 
[Verse 2]
     A                          F
The fox-stained leaves of civilization
G                 A
Depict a stark repeat
     A                F
It's always a flaw in reasoning
      G          D    A
That fates the citizenry
         F         G            A
When the ancestor fell from the arbor
    F        C    G  A
The march of fear began
        F         G           A
But the predator wallowed in failure
        F              E
In the face of consciousness
 
 
[Chorus]
          A      F   A       F
Threat is urgent, existential
        G        A
Time to scan the horizon
        A      F     A     F
But the danger's elemental
      G         A
It's chaos from within
 
 
[Guitar solo]
A F
G D A
A F
G E
 
 
[Chorus]
          A      F   A       F
Threat is urgent, existential
    G               A
Omnipresent like a skin
         A     F         A    F
But the danger's purely mental
     G             F   G
It's chaos from within
               A F A F G D A
Chaos from within